Akihiro Hino of Level-5 talked about AI again (to be fair, he was asked). [Context] This is an official interview conducted by a popular Weibo account:
We are positive about AI as a whole. After all, it is where future development is going. But we are also very clear: creativity cannot be completely handed over to AI, it is more of a tool for communication and efficiency improvement. For example, some planners who don’t know how to draw can use AI to generate sketches to help express ideas and facilitate communication with artists. But the very content generated by AI will not be directly used in the game. There were also players complaining that “[L5] delayed games despite using AI“, but this is not the case. AI can help us handle certain things more efficiently, but to complete the enormous game volume it requires the creatives to produce and direct the final content output. All these takes time … I am very sorry to keep everyone waiting.
P.S.: Pretty sure this Hino statement will be scarcely spread compared to his “80-90% of codes written by AI” quote. Fewer people care when the news isn’t spicy.
[Originally posted on 2025-06-25 Pacific Time]
